The aim of the Mutual Learning Exercise on Evaluation of business R&D grant schemes is to support participating Member States in designing, implementing and evaluating different policy instruments in relation to the following topics: Big data and the next generation of evaluation techniques Capturing behavioural change Quality standards and comparative data in innovation policy evaluation …

The study on “Assessing the Impacts of EU Regulatory Barriers on Innovation” aimed to: Provide an economic analysis of the effects of EU regulatory barriers to innovation during the past 10 years defined in terms of Additional costs for innovations as a result of regulatory barriers Lack of adequate response to the patterns of global…

In 1987, the country of Luxembourg established public research centres (CRPs), mainly to support applied research to meet business-sector needs. During the last decade, CRPs have increasingly focused on more strategic applied (and occasionally oriented basic) research. Recently performance agreements between the ministry in charge and the CRPs were introduced, two CRPs merged into LIST…

The creation of the Technology Transfer Acceleration Companies (SATT), following the 2010 call for projects, is part of a desire to strengthen the exploitation of the results of public research towards the private sector, in order to improve the growth potential of the French economy. This new instrument aims to continue the momentum initiated since…